This is no piece of cake.

I've been a mother for 13 years, 3 kids, 2 countries, 4 different homes and a 1004 hour of training degree in Children's Behavior Management, and I must say that this is no piece of cake. Getting children to where we believe they need to go is hard. Just to mention yesterday, I'm dead tired, jet lagged, desperate to go to sleep. I'm in my bed, my eye lids are so heavy that not even a mechanic shovel can pick them up and my 7 year old comes to my side: "Mommy?" "Hmmh", I grumbeld. "I don't want to go to bed", he says, with his sweet voice. "Ahhhhh!!!!!!!", said my exhausted brain. "Leave me alone", she screamed inside of me. I took a deep breath, with the softest voice I could I said to my little angel: "Honey, I'm exhausted, my eyes need to sleep right now. They won't even open anymore". I don't know what happened next, but it is now 6am and I recall nothing of what happened after saying that last sentence to my child. Note: he is sleeping in his bed, tucked in, and I know that he did it by himself.